In our travels into civilization this weekend, we found this coonskin cap at a mountain market. We’ve gotten lots of “Hey, Davy Crockett!” and “Are you Daniel Boone?” He just grins. It’s the only hat he will wear, and he thinks he’s incredibly funny when he has it on. (Which he is.) We also stopped […]
That tiny bit of snow on the post is our very first. It rained most of the day, temperatures were in the 30’s, and this evening we looked out the windows to see we were surrounded by flurries of snow. Snow in September? You just take what the mountains give you, I guess. The higher […]
Chili Pepper kitchen Last night we painted the town red. Oh, I mean we painted the kitchen red. For me, it was just as much fun as a wild night out. David isn’t quite as obsessed with painting as I am, poor guy, but he stuck with it and worked right alongside me. We used […]
We are in our new house! It took us four days of going back and forth, but we’re finally in. Caleb and the kids and I took the first load in the back of our 4Runner Thursday night. Unfortunately, we somehow never got a key to our house. So I slid in through the doggie […]
Almost from the time we were married, we’ve dreamed of owning a home and a patch of land in the mountains. When I started this blog, I even called myself a mountain girl–but it was just a dream. When Zia was tiny, we began working toward that dream with a budget chart marked Lucero Mountain […]
